Live here and drove across the country, KC traffic is some of the nicer traffic compared to most major metros.
But part of what to understand with the shit police we have is helpful to explain that Kansas City is one of the only two metros that doesn’t have control over its PD (the other is St. Louis, which Missouri just took back over this year). So in the city, the police are ran by a 5 person panel, 1 is the mayor, the other 4 are picked by the governor.
And since we’ve had nothing but right wing nutjobs for mayors for the past 3, they love to go after the “liberal cities” which means it’s in their favor to be easy on the police in all forms, and what can the people in the city going to do about it? The answer is as long as the city doesn’t have control over it, then fuck all.
It is.
Why do you think they’re trying to make one legal and the other not?